07.18.08
Links 18/07/2008: GNU/Linux at NASA, Nicaragua
GNU/Linux
- 5 Most Popular Linux-hackable Gadgets
Linux is a powerful and versatile operating system that can be utilized to hack just about any electronic hardware device. To prove it, I have here a list of popular gadgets that are already known to run Linux.
- BLAG 90000: The Che Guevara Of Linux
- NASA Uses Ubuntu
He and I walked back over behind the guy to look. I pointed out the little bit of the heron you could see at the bottom of the screen, and he said “yep, it’s Hardy.” Then he added, “look what else he’s running.” “What?” “Compiz. You can see the shadows on the panels.”
- IBM lets Linux programs run on Unix servers
- Nicaragua: Open Source Software in Public Institutions
The blogger LEOGG has been working with public institutions to take full advantage of these technologies in order to make them more efficient. In his post “Nicaragua Libre” (Free Nicaragua), LEOGG explains how they helped Jalapa, a rural town near the border of Honduras in the north of the country how to develop and use Linux-based software.
- Acer Aspire one (Linux)
- Short update and pause in 2.6.27 merge window
- Xubuntu + BeOS like theme + Remastersys = PC/OS?
KDE
- KDE 4.1 RC1 - Yet Another Top Release
So another succesful release, I really think that anyone who hasn’t switched because they thought that it wasn’t mature enough at KDE 4.0 release, its about time to consider it. 4.1 is not only mature, but it’s also stable. Soon enough, the beauty of the KDE 4 series is going to start to outshadow competition, and with the desktop experience being most important to the end user, more smaller businesses and casual home users might start to switch, just to see KDE 4. The more real information there is about what Linux and KDE are, and what KDE looks and feels like, the more people will want to use it.
- KDE 4.1. The promise of a better future!
- Plasma Embedded
My job was to install Linux on it. And I did just that - Debian GNU/Linux with KDE 4.1 beta which is in Debian’s experimental repositories. I hooked the system to my screen so that you can see what it looks like (although it was a bit odd to hook something like this to a 19″ screen). It behaves surprisingly well - the system is responsive and works very well (with all fancy Plasma animations).
GTK/WebKit
UNIX
F/OSS (Free Open Source Software)
- Canonical, Openbravo Set to Demo ERP for Ubuntu Linux
- Idalica Announces Upcoming Adempiere/Compiere Open Source ERP Technical Training
- Use open source to avoid jail and rescue your weekends
- Zmanda Named Among ‘Top 10 Storage Start-Ups’
- Audio/Visual Synthesis: The New Arts, Part 2
In this second part of my survey I focus on the tools that achieve this new synthesis of arts. Alas, due to space constraints I am unable to include all the software I would like to have reviewed, but perhaps a future article will deal with those programs.
- Queensland to investigate open source capability
When a genre of software is estimated to account for 15 percent of the total revenue generated by a given sector of the IT industry and that total is $A3.5 billion, then it is time to sit up and take notice.
Which is what the government of the Australian state of Queensland has done. Queensland, which styles itself as the “smart state”, has provided funding to research company Longhaus to “identify the current and growing capabilities within Queensland’s ICT industry” of the open source sector.
- The Blender Foundation’s ‘Big Buck Bunny’ is a Peach!
FOSS (Fake Open Source Software. or Wave Riding)
- Is content you can edit open source?
- JUNOS: Open, But Not Open Source
- Open Source Goes Mobile Workshop
Microsoft
- Windows Live Expo Goes Offline
- Wii overtakes Xbox 360 in US – now leads the world
1. Nintendo DS — 783,000
2. Wii — 666,700
3. PlayStation 3 — 405,500
4. PSP — 337,4000
5. Xbox 360 — 219,800
6. PlayStation 2 — 188,800 - Microsoft results hit its shares
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.